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In the late 1940s and early 50s we lived in Wilshaw Grove Waterloo. There was a farmer who delivered milk in a 2 wheeled horse drawn milk float. he used a gill can to pour milk from a large churn into a jug provided by his customers Does anybody have a photograph of the float or any idea of the farmers name. Was it Ollerenshaw by any chance? Thanks for any help

From the 1940s, my parents lived on Newmarket Road and I can remember just such a farmer delivering milk to them as well. He lived just a bit further down from the clock shop on Newmarket Road and he may have well been called Ollerenshaw. I went to his farmhouse once, probably to pay a bill, and was fascinated. In the 1940s and 1950s my Aunt and Uncle lived at No. 46 Wilshaw Grove.

I used to deliver papers from Oldham rd down Ney st at the end of the forties.I think Willshaw Grove if it was on the right along Ney St, down Newmarket rd as far as the last house on the rightKevin.Faricy

Just going off subject a bit but when I used to visit my aunt and uncle on Wilshaw Grove as a boy I could hear the trains chuffing past along the Ashton to Oldham via Park Bridge line as it was quite close.